Alabama Mercedes Plant Workers
Have Sour Greeting for Organizers

VANCE, Ala. -- The United Auto Workers union is finding that organizing in the South is an uphill fight -- even on what was supposed to be a level playing field.

This past fall, in contract talks with DaimlerChrysler AG in Detroit, the union won what was hailed as a major victory when the auto maker promised to remain "neutral" as the UAW tried to organize its Mercedes-Benz sport-utility-vehicle factory in rural Alabama....